Lapierre: Goal 'little lucky but we'll take it'

Fri, 06/10/2011 - 11:21pm — Mike Petraglia

The game-winning goal off the stick of Maxim Lapierre was a "lucky" break by the admission of the man who scored it. Lapierre was positioned to the right of Tim Thomas when he took a pass off the end boards and flipped it off the backside of Thomas. The puck trickled off of Thomas' pads and dropped over the goal line, providing the margin of victory in Vancouver's 1-0 win in Game 5.

"I was actually going backdoor for a tip," Lapierre told Versus in a postgame interview, referring to a pass he was expecting from Kevin Bieksa in front of Thomas. "That was a good play. We got a little lucky but we'll take it."

"The puck got across the line by a couple of inches and that was the difference," added Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault in his postgame press conference.

As for coming out stronger and outhitting the Bruins, 47-27, Lapierre said the Canucks were more in control.

"We played with a little more confidence and were more patient," Lapierre said on his postgame TV interview. "It was good for us."

Game 6 is now a must-win for the Bruins back in Boston Monday night. If the Bruins win, Game 7 is back in Vancouver Wednesday night. For more, visit the Bruins team page at weei.com/bruins[1] and the Big Bad Blog[2].